Numbers 26 To 39 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings

This is a terrace of fourteen semi-detached villas, linked together as a unified composition. They were built on a slope of a hill around 1832, as part of a street layout designed by John Booth and his son, who were surveyors for the Lloyd Baker Estate. The villas are constructed of gold-coloured brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with stucco dressings and stucco pediments above each pair of houses. The roofs are a mix of Welsh slate (on numbers 26, 29, 32, 35, and 36) and artificial slate, with some roofs obscured by a parapet. Brick or stucco-rendered stacks are centrally located.

The architectural style is restrained Greek Revival. Each house follows a side-hall entrance plan, with the outer bay of each villa linked to the next. The buildings are two storeys high, with basements, and each has two windows. A recessed bay, originally containing a single window, serves as a link between the houses. Numbers 35 and 36 are irregular, with an extended link to accommodate a carriage-way between the entrances and an additional window above.

A low set of steps leads to deeply recessed stucco entrances, framed by antae and supporting an entablature topped with twentieth-century reproduction iron balcony railings. The entrance doorways have pairs of six-panelled doors (original in numbers 26 to 29, 31 to 35). The windows are predominantly architraved sashes. The ground floor windows are mostly 6/6 sashes, often with margin lights, while the first-floor windows are generally 6/6 sashes, sometimes with margin lights, and occasionally 8/8 sashes. First-floor recessed links provide balconies with narrower doors or windows. A plain stucco band runs beneath the pediments; a stucco parapet incorporates stone coping or a blocking course to the first-floor recessed link. Original iron railings are attached to the front of the terrace.